Podcast appearances and mentions of nick ortolani

On Make it Stop we continue to hone in on a central thesis of bad music - that no matter the genre, no matter the age or era, all bad music begins to flow together into the same swirling cesspool of shit. Nowhere is this more apparent than in tonight's episode of March Badness pitting whiny wine mom fantasy husband Pat Monahan and his band Train against nu-indie-rap-emo-Christian-rock disasters Twenty One Pilots. There exists a synchronicity of sanctimonious and deeply inane drivel so intense that there are several points in which the tracks blend seamlessly into one another, one ukelele riff at a time, synthetic hand clap in hand clap. Joining us on this doomed journey is returning guest and Boston comedian Nick Ortolani, who almost fully cracks as we deep dive into the shallow crevices of these cursed albums. It's a race to the bottom as we duke it out song by song to see which terrible white men are the least worst, and you'll be tearing your hair out till the very end. This is not a Drive By, stoppies. We're just shy guys, looking for a two-ply Hefty bag to hold our love. Part of the Pantheon Podcast Network.

On Make it Stop we continue to hone in on a central thesis of bad music - that no matter the genre, no matter the age or era, all bad music begins to flow together into the same swirling cesspool of shit. Nowhere is this more apparent than in tonight's episode of March Badness pitting whiny wine mom fantasy husband Pat Monahan and his band Train against nu-indie-rap-emo-Christian-rock disasters Twenty One Pilots. There exists a synchronicity of sanctimonious and deeply inane drivel so intense that there are several points in which the tracks blend seamlessly into one another, one ukelele riff at a time, synthetic hand clap in hand clap. Joining us on this doomed journey is returning guest and Boston comedian Nick Ortolani, who almost fully cracks as we deep dive into the shallow crevices of these cursed albums. It's a race to the bottom as we duke it out song by song to see which terrible white men are the least worst, and you'll be tearing your hair out till the very end. This is not a Drive By, stoppies. We're just shy guys, looking for a two-ply Hefty bag to hold our love. Part of the Pantheon Podcast Network.

On Make it Stop we continue to hone in on a central thesis of bad music - that no matter the genre, no matter the age or era, all bad music begins to flow together into the same swirling cesspool of shit. Nowhere is this more apparent than in tonight's episode of March Badness pitting whiny wine mom fantasy husband Pat Monahan and his band Train against nu-indie-rap-emo-Christian-rock disasters Twenty One Pilots. There exists a synchronicity of sanctimonious and deeply inane drivel so intense that there are several points in which the tracks blend seamlessly into one another, one ukelele riff at a time, synthetic hand clap in hand clap. Joining us on this doomed journey is returning guest and Boston comedian Nick Ortolani, who almost fully cracks as we deep dive into the shallow crevices of these cursed albums. It's a race to the bottom as we duke it out song by song to see which terrible white men are the least worst, and you'll be tearing your hair out till the very end. This is not a Drive By, stoppies. We're just shy guys, looking for a two-ply Hefty bag to hold our love. Part of the Pantheon Podcast Network.

This week on Make It Stop we close out season 2 with a bang, bringing back four beloved guests to take on the newest album by the worst of the worst -- Brokencyde. Brandon Vallee, Angela Sawyer, Emily Ruskowki and Nick Ortolani join Heather and Mike to talk about the scenesters turnt hipsters as they transition from crunkcore, discover weed and Juuls, and continue pretending they know how sex works. All of this in front of a live audience at Somerville's VOX POP studio in Assembly Row. It gets weird and gross as we search for meaning in the wasteland that is Brokencyde's lyrics. We laugh, we cry, and we're gonna miss you all this summer. Godspeed ye Stoppies. Good night and good luck.

This week on Make It Stop we close out season 2 with a bang, bringing back four beloved guests to take on the newest album by the worst of the worst -- Brokencyde. Brandon Vallee, Angela Sawyer, Emily Ruskowki and Nick Ortolani join Heather and Mike to talk about the scenesters turnt hipsters as they transition from crunkcore, discover weed and Juuls, and continue pretending they know how sex works. All of this in front of a live audience at Somerville's VOX POP studio in Assembly Row. It gets weird and gross as we search for meaning in the wasteland that is Brokencyde's lyrics. We laugh, we cry, and we're gonna miss you all this summer. Godspeed ye Stoppies. Good night and good luck.

This week on Make It Stop we close out season 2 with a bang, bringing back four beloved guests to take on the newest album by the worst of the worst -- Brokencyde. Brandon Vallee, Angela Sawyer, Emily Ruskowki and Nick Ortolani join Heather and Mike to talk about the scenesters turnt hipsters as they transition from crunkcore, discover weed and Juuls, and continue pretending they know how sex works. All of this in front of a live audience at Somerville's VOX POP studio in Assembly Row. It gets weird and gross as we search for meaning in the wasteland that is Brokencyde's lyrics. We laugh, we cry, and we're gonna miss you all this summer. Godspeed ye Stoppies. Good night and good luck. Part 1 of 2. 

This week's episode is the opposite of a Christmas miracle: a veritable log of reindeer shit left for us to scrape off our shoes till the end of eternity, the album Lulu by Lou Reed and Metallica began as an improbable but intriguing pairing that soon became one of the most widely panned artistic outputs by all of the musicians involved in its production. Over an hour and a half long, Lulu boggles the mind with its breadth of hatred for its audience, plodding through strained, off-key warblings from a spiteful and potentially senile Reed juxtaposed with 2 chord metal riffs from a bafflingly neutered Metallica. We invited local comedian Nick Ortolani to get down in the trenches, and boy do we bet he regrets that decision. Dive on in, cuz it's gonna get wild...on this week's Make it Stop: Lulu. 

Round 2 featuring Dave Child, Nick Ortolani, Casey Malone, Gary Petersen, and Hannah Foell. Recorded Live at Great Scott in Boston, December 26, 2014. 

Round one with Emily Ruskowski, Nick Ortolani, Gary Petersen, Rob Crean, Rich Karski and Jake McDowell. Recorded March 8, 2014 at the Davis Square Theater in Boston.

Round one with Jake McDowell, Kylie Alexander, Katie McCarthy, Nick Ortolani, and Shawn Armistead. Recorded at the Davis Square Theater in Somerville, MA, on December 28, 2013.